Everything You Have is Mine

I would like to preface this review by stating that I found Lauren Laurano to be a very engaging sleuth character. She's a feminist who isn't afraid to say that she's got some issues with her age and a fear of technology, who doesn't let anybody get the best of her, and who is very socially and culturally conscious (I'm wondering how much of that is the author's projection of herself...). Lauren is amazingly up on all of the women sleuths in the mystery genre, and lives in a constant state of comparing her own investigative strategies to theirs, which situated her well within the genre, but proved a distraction - does a PI really read mystery novels in her time off? Would they be considered “case studies” (nyuk nyuk)? Her relationship with her partner is very realistic, as are all of her friends and associates.

I hated, though, how perfectly convenient her “relationship” with the killer became. She knew him, and that's the only reason that she found it strange to have seen him at the funeral of the murdered Lake Huron (love the name), then again working in her office building. Without that initial recognition, I don't know that she would have given second thought to him in that first situation.